Infectious Diseases - Flu
Seasonal Influenza Immunisation Programme for 2009/2010
Seasonal flu occurs every year, usually in the winter. It is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. Symptoms include fever, chills, headache, aching muscles, cough and sore throat - and because seasonal flu is a virus, antibiotics won't help.
For more information on the flu programme for 2009, see the attachments below.
Seasonal Influenza Immunisation Programme for 2009/2010
Offering poultry workers the seasonal flu vaccination is a precautionary public health measure to reduce the risk of poultry workers contracting both avian and human influenza simultaneously.
This would reduce the theoretical risk for circulating human influenza virus to re-assort with avian influenza virus, thereby producing a new influenza virus which could have pandemic potential.
Seasonal influenza vaccine protects against seasonal human influenza but does not protect against avian influenza or swine flu.
Seasonal Influenza Immunisation Programme for Poultry Workers 2009/2010
- HSS(MD) 33/2009 29 July 2009 (PDF 395 KB)
- If you work with Poultry leaflet - Latvian Translation (PDF 78 KB)
- If you work with Poultry leaflet - Polish Translation (PDF 105 KB)
- If you work with Poultry leaflet - Portuguese Translation (PDF 39 KB)
- If you work with Poultry leaflet - Russian Translation (PDF 102 KB)
Seasonal flu vaccination information and translations
- Information leaflet (PDF 203KB)
- Chinese Complex (PDF 244KB)
- Chinese Simplified (PDF 99KB)
- Irish (PDF 74KB)
- Latvian (PDF 132KB)
- Lithuanian (PDF 130KB)
- Polish (PDF 134KB)
- Portuguese (PDF 43KB)
- Russian (PDF 167KB)
- Slovak (PDF 128KB)
- Tetum (PDF 43KB)
Seasonal flu – protection for health and social care workers
Seasonal flu – protection for carers
A revised chapter on influenza for 2009 is now available at:
